Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research

Special Issue No.57

Global Scale Climate and Environment Study though Polar Deep Ice Cores

CONTENTS

Preface ...................................Hitoshi Shoji and Okitsugu Watanabe ........................................ i

General tendencies of stable isotopes and major chemical constituents of the Dome Fuji deep ice core (scientific paper)
Okitsusgu Watanabe, Kokichi Kamiyama, Hideaki Motoyama, Yoshiyuki Fujii, Makoto Igarashi, Teruo Furukawa, Kumiko Goto-Azuma, Takashi Saito, Satoru Kanamori, Nobuko Kanamori,Naohiro Yoshida and Ryu Uemura ........................................ 1

Dating of the Dome Fuji, Antarctica deep ice core (scientific paper)
Okitsugu Watanabe, Hitoshi Shoji, Kazuhide Satow, Hideaki Motoyama, Yoshiyuki Fujii, Hideki Narita and Shuji Aoki. ....................................... 25

Estimation of annual layer thickness from stratigraphical analysis of Dome Fuji deep ice core (scientific paper)
Hideki Narita, Nobuhiko Azuma, Takeo Hondoh, Akira Hori, Tadayasu Hiramatsu, Michiko Fujii-Miyamoto, Kazuhide Satow, Hitoshi Shoji and Okitsugu Watanabe ........................................ 38

A 320 k-year record of microparticles in the Dome Fuji, Antarctica ice core measured by laser-light scattering (scientific paper)
Yoshiyuki Fujii, Mika Kohno, Sumito Matoba, Hideaki Motoyama and Okitsugu Watanabe ........................................ 46

Physical properties of the Dome Fuji deep ice core (review)
Takeo Hondoh, Hideki Narita, Akira Hori, Tomoko Ikeda-Fukazawa, Michiko Fujii-Miyamoto, Hiroshi Ohno, Takayuki Shiraiwa, Shinji Mae, Shuji Fujita, Hiroshi Fukazawa, Taku Fukumura, Hitoshi Shoji, Takao Kameda, Atsushi Miyamoto, Nobuhiko Azuma, Yun Wang, Kunio Kawada, Fumihiko Nishio, Hideaki Motoyama and Okitsugu Watanabe ........................................ 63

Reconstruction of the atmospheric CO2 concentration history from an Antarctic deep ice core, Dome Fuji using a wet extraction technique: analysis procedures, dating of air in ice and concentration variations (scientific paper)
Kenji Kawamura, Shuji Aoki, Takakiyo Nakazawa, Satoshi Sugawara, Yoshiyuki Fujii and Okitsugu Watanabe ........................................ 72

A bipolar comparison of deep ice cores from Antarctica (Dome Fuji) and Greenland (GRIP) (scientific paper)
Hitoshi Shoji, Atsushi Miyamoto, Kimiko Shimohara, Okitsugu Watanabe, Yoshiyuki Fujii, Kokichi Kamiyama, Hideaki Motoyama, Kumiko Goto-Azuma, Makoto Igarashi, Morimasa Takata, Mika Kohno, Shuji Fujita, Takakiyo Nakazawa, Shuji Aoki, Kenji Kawamura, Hideki Narita, Kunio Kawada, Nobuhiko Azuma, Takashi Saito, Henrik B. Clausen and Sigfus J.Johnsen....................................... 86

Meteorological characteristics of Antarctic inland station, Dome Fuji (scientific paper)
Takashi Yamanouchi, Naohiko Hirasawa, Masahiko Hayashi, Shuhei Takahashi and Susumu Kaneto
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Linking Antarctic glaciochemical records to past climate conditions (scientific paper)
Robert J. Delmas, Martine de Angelis, Yoshiyuki Fujii, Kumiko Goto-Azuma, Kokichi Kamiyama, Jean-Robert Petit and Okitsugu Watanabe........................................ 105

Reconstruction of glacial/interglacial changes in the global carbon cycle from CO2 and δ13 CO2 in Antarctic ice cores (scientific paper)
Hubertus Fischer, Martin Wahlen and Jesse Smith....................................... 121

Discussion of the reliability of CO2, CH4 and N2O records from polar ice cores (scientific paper)
Bernhard Stauffer, Jacqueline Fluckiger, Eric Monnin, Takakiyo Nakazawa and Shuji Aoki ........................................ 139

Reconstruction of past atmospheric CH4 concentration from the firn air data at Dome Fuji (scientific note)
Satoshi Sugawara, Kenji Kawamura, Shuji Aoki, Takakiyo Nakazawa and Gen Hashida ........................................ 153

Cloudy band observations for annual layer counting on the GRIP and NGRIP, Greenland, deep ice core samples (scientific note)
Kimiko Shimohara, Atsushi Miyamoto, Kinji Hyakutake, Hitoshi Shoji, Morimasa Takata and Sepp Kipfstuhl
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Mechanical anisotropy of deep ice core samples by uniaxial compression tests (scientific paper)
Atsushi Miyamoto, Kimiko Shimohara, Kinji Hyakutake, Hitoshi Shoji, Hideki Narita and Takeo Hondoh ........................................ 168

Behavior of air molecules in polar ice sheets (review)
Tomoko Ikeda-Fukazawa and Takeo Hondoh ........................................ 178

Program of International Symposium on the Dome Fuji Ice Core and Related Topics, 27-28 February 2001, Tokyo ........................................ 187

Author index ............................................................................ 189